Oceans of Fun!

I am so excited to begin teaching my Sea Life unit when we return from Spring Break! It's one of my favorite units and one my students remember for years to come. Over the break I created my Oceans of Fun packet to breathe some new life (and Common Core Standards) into the unit. This packet is spilling over with all sorts of fun things to do with young learners. First of all, there are 10 little books for Emergent Readers. Three of the books are my EZ-2 Assemble books which are designed to be copied, folded, stapled and distributed with a minimum of time and paper! The other books in the packet are designed to support students with simple text and pictures that are fun and inviting to young readers. The Five Little Mermaids book(s) use rhyming and subtraction/counting backwards to keep readers interested. The Word Work in the packet include word graphs that show students the theme related words in a variety of fonts, ABC order (1st letter only), labeling, cut-apart sentences, pocket chart words, counting syllables and more.
The math portion of the packet include activities to support students as they learn to skip count by 2's and 5's , skip counting cards for the pocket chart,  tallies, working with less than/greater than/and equal using the proper symbols, decomposing numbers, ordering objects by size, and more. There are even a few fun playdough mats included.  Writing activities include arranging words to make complete sentences, writing to share facts about animals, whole and small group writing to make books, and more.
Please visit my Teachers Notebook Shop to grab a copy for your students!

On The Farm

If you're an Early Childhood Educator, you know that nearly every Spring you or someone you know is teaching a unit about the Farm! This packet has a variety of materials for young learners including....

• 4 Emergent Readers topics

• Sight Word activities (including sight words for the farm as well as basic sight words)

• Math Activities that help students count by 2's and 5's

• Measuring in Non-Standard Units

• Counting

• Adding

• Ordering items by size

• Pocket Chart words for both the Big Pocket Chart and table top sizes

• Letter Work

• Word Work including several Write The Walls sheets

• Farm themed Stationary (lined and unlined)

• Labeling

What a fun way to support your young learners and they explore learning about the Farm! Click on the image below to visit my Teachers Notebook shop to learn more....

Graphics from KPM Doodles and Whimsy Doodles

ABC Highlight Games for Spring & Summer

 It's time to pack away my winter things and I am excited to share my Spring and Summer versions of my ABC Highlight Games. My students LOVE playing this game as part of their independent center work. This set includes themes for Easter, Earth Day, Gardening, Birds, Outside Play, the Beach and more!
Take a peek this set at my Teachers Notebook shop:

Printable Spring Readers

My kindergartners are really enjoying the printable readers we use in class. I have begun creating sets for use with emergent readers. The books in my SPRING READER set have a "Spring Theme" and allow practice with basic sight words. There are 5 books in the set. The titles are:
" Little Bowed Sheep","What Is Green?" (color words)
Where Is The Bunny?" , "Under The Rainbow". (positional words),
 "Jellies In The Jar",(counting, adding,& color words)
I love printable books. I love giving kids books they can read and keep at home to practice. But, I am not a big fan of rearranging the pages in order to assemble the books and I don't always have a parent on hand to help. With that, I have designed my EZ-2 Assemble books to be taken to the copy machine and printed 1-sided to 2-sided, folded and stapled. No need to re-shuffle pages in order to make the books.
Click over to my Teachers Notebook Shop to get a set of EZ-2 Assemble Spring Readers for your young readers!

Images from KPM Doodles & LLS graphics

Tiny Photos Memory Game

Do you get a set of tiny photos from your school photographer? I never really know what to do with them. I am planning to make a "MEMORY" game using them. I've made a memory game before, but I had to print out the photos on the color printer (INK!!!). These photos from the photographer will come in very handy Each set has a minimum of 4 photos per child. I will use 2 photos of each child. I cut card stock into 2x2 inch squares. I love to color code my AM & PM classes, so I have yellow  card stock for the morning and blue for the afternoon class. The pictures will be mounted on the card stock, laminated and placed on the shelf with other games the kids play in class. I think they will really enjoy playing the classic memory game with the photos of their classmates.  How do you use those tiny photos?

Community Helpers Packet

Teaching young learners about Community Helpers is a staple among Early Childhood Educators. My Community Helpers packet is designed to help make the unit easy for the teacher and challenging and fun for students.
I am pleased to include 11 books that students can color/make and take home for sharing and reading. Five of them are my "EZ-2 Assemble Books" which are formatted and designed so you can copy them back-to-back, fold, staple and distribute to students. There is no need to re-arrange or shuffle the pages to assemble them for student use. This saves both time and paper!
There are activities to strengthen word work, sentence building, and writing skills. Math activities include; pattern work, skip counting, more/less (using the </> signs), place value and more.
Stop in my Teachers Notebook Shop to learn more:

graphics from KPM Doodles

Happy Birthday Fran

Happy Birthday Fran!

 I borrowed these two WILD and CRAZY guys to help me send a shout out to my good gal pal Fran of Kindergarten Crayons. Fran is with good company celebrating her birthday in February.... and I want to start the CELEBRATION a little early!

Fran loves Freebies and she also loves Chocolate so in recognition of her special day, I am offering my I LOVE CHOCOLATE  packet  as a freebie to you in honor of Fran and all the wonderful freebies and fabulous ideas she has shared with us over time!

There's no need to sign up and wait to see if you won, (although it would be nice for you to hop over and give the birthday girl a virtual hug! ;-) )

Her birthday is on Feb. 22, but I'm sure she'll take an early hug if you have one!

 This little packet has 3  books for emergent readers.
I am also introducing my first EZ-2 Assemble Books!  In my "EZ-2 Assemble" books the pages arranged so they come out of your copy machine ready to fold and staple. No need to rearrange pages after copying. Simply fold and staple....no hassle. You'll save time and save paper, that in itself is like another gift! ;-)

Look for more gifts in Fran's honor soon!

Enjoy this freebie....I would love your feedback on the EZ-2 Assemble books as I have several others in mind! ;-)

Don't forget to go to Kindergarten Crayons and wish Fran a Happy Birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRAN!!!!